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filtercap · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: GarageBand amp sims

Anybody like/hate the amp simulators in GarageBand? I've gotten some decent clean and semi-overdriven sounds going, but I haven't got the hang of setting distortion/fuzz using GB fx. I added a graphic EQ and set the sliders to look more or less kinda like a git-amp speaker response curve, and that helped some.

Also, I have to turn the "preamp" slider way down or else turn the input on my Firepod way down, or I get ridiculous amounts of "preamp" distortion.

I might just go through pedals into the Firepod instead. Any tips?

a66jagdream · . Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 176 Location: North Carolina

I know this is an old post, but i didnt have internet then.

I hate them, thats why i use my toneport for most of the effects.

You can hear them here.

http://www.myspace.com/masterseanwhite

The music isnt so good, but you can hear the kinda sounds i can get out of it.

filtercap · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:58 am Post subject:

Who let you into MY THREAD??? Cool

Yeah, Toneport beats GB Amp Sims for distortion. There but for 300 bucks go I....

I can get plenty of raw overdrive with GB, but I get a thick layer of high-end fizz. I could really use a good overdriven Marshall sound -- 70's NYC sleaze-rock meets Britpop type stuff. Perhaps that's asking too much. Even with real amps, overdriven guitar sounds are about the hardest thing for me to record well, other than drums.

gaybear · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject:

in my limited experience, i mostly just liked the clean sounds on garage band.
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a66jagdream · . Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 176 Location: North Carolina

you can get a toneport for 150 usd

filtercap · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

My next quantity of expendable dollars probably gets expended among a Kit Of The Drums. I've got Toneport plus that guitar-software thread filed away in my head though.

I did try going DI through my modded Turbo Rat and a couple runoffgroove pedals ("Eighteen" and "Supreaux"). Decent, but still a bit fizzy. I want to mess around more with a runoffgroove pedal as amp simulator plus a speaker simulator in GB.

Linko

mattyb · . Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 18

I don't use the amp sims for guitar i just go straight from my pedals. But i do a teeny bit on the vocals to give it a little bit of a grungy kick.
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filtercap · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:57 am Post subject:

Forgot about this thread. Smile

It turns out the GB amp sims are OK for keyboards for the same reason.... you have a Fender Rhodes sound or whatnot, and you want to add some grit and reduce its frequency range.

Reece · . Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10358 Location: Kent, UK

I had no idea GarageBand had amp sims.

I'm gonna have to hog my friends mac tomorrow and play around with it.
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Ninja Mike 808 · . Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 1643 Location: DFW

I've used em a little bit... I primarily use GB for production and recording, but I'd rather have a real amp. I had a guy playin' a Les Paul in the studio a few times, and when he played on this Line 6 combo amp w/ a digital pedal he got incredible sounds, but my GB amp sims of him weren't actually that inferior.

You should also try and find other AU plugs, maybe some free ones or maybe not.

tareofthesnob · . Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 30 Location: canada

i find the distortion buzzes too much.. the drum loops are fun tho.

filtercap · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: